#4 - May 6, 2009, 9:46 a.m.
Honestly, it is a very difficult task. Beyond that though, many players tend to look at PvP in the 1 v.s. 1 sense, which is not what we are aiming for in our balance philosophy. We would like the game to be balanced on a more battle-oriented scale.
This ideal for balance reflects our goal to get PvP back into the BG environment and de-centralize arena as what players feel is the current PvP capitol. That is not to say that we aren't trying to make sure that there is balance in all arena brackets, because we most assuredly are.
So in the one on one sense is PvP 100% balanced probably not, but in the mass sense combat battle or war is it balanced, we think it's pretty close.